i have technical preview not beta. beta come out this month they say.
anyway i see nothing different in saving to text format. no code page
selcting.


"Greg Lovern" wrote in message
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| For those of you using the Excel 2010 beta -- when saving as text,
| does it allow choosing the target codepage, as Word allows?
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| For example, if I'm running English Windows, can I save a text file
| from Excel as "Japanese (Shift-JIS)" encoding?
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| Or does it still only save as the currently active Windows codepage?
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| If my question is not clear:
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| in Word, if you save as "Plain Text (*.txt)", you get a "File
| Conversion" dialog, which allows you to select the "Other encoding"
| radio button, then choose from a long list of codepages in a listbox.
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| Word has had this feature at least since 2003, not sure offhand about
| earlier. Just wondering if we'll have it in Excel 2010.
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| What we're doing now is automating Word from Excel to open the text
| file we save from Excel, then save it as Shift-JIS. But besides taking
| more time, it requires Word. It would be nice to be able to do it
| directly from Excel.
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| Thanks,
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| Greg